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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

by Jim Mullen: We are trapped in a time of our nation's history when
misfortunes, mismanagement, corruption, and leftwing ideology come together in
a powerful concurrence of circumstances that leave our once dynamic nation at
risk for disaster.

Americans are a people dependent upon a meddling,
incompetent government with its foot on the necks of its citizens. As incredible
as it seems, our representatives allowed dictators and corrupt regimes around
the world to control nearly everything we need for survival. Moreover, this
administration is weak and incapacitated on the world stage, making us
dependent upon the very people who wish to annihilate us.

Dozens of pressing problems challenge America today. Unquestionably,
however, the two most urgent problems facing us are the loss of our Industrial
complex/manufacturing base, and a crucial lack of cyber security.

Power grids, water supplies, and other utilities are the
lifelines sustaining our nation, and experts have warned for decades of onrushing
disasters. Computer hacking or other sabotage could leave our entire nation a
rudderless, powerless ship drifting defenselessly in a violent and hostile
world.

In an age when computers run our military, infrastructure,
governmental agencies, financial networks, and nearly everything upon which
Americans depend for comfort and survival, we stand defenseless. Countries
attack, probe, and steal information with brazen impunity knowing Obama has no
stomach for confrontation or retaliation with other countries.

There was a time when America rightfully boasted the
greatest and most envied industrial complex and manufacturing base in the
history of mankind. However, that was before politicians decided to over
regulate, overtax, and enact never-ending destructive legislation motivating business
and manufacturing to surrender and move to foreign countries offering more welcoming
laws.

Further, national politicians signed unwise trade agreements
with countries which placed the United States in a subservient position on
trade. Mega-international corporation lobbyists became the driving force for
trade policy, and national security steadily suffered. Fair trade became a victim of an ill-conceived national scheme and withered
in the heat of backroom deals between money brokers and politicians. The false
narrative of free trade left our
nation impotent in a world offering depressed wages, fewer benefits, insignificant
regulations, and lower taxes.Obviously,
good-paying jobs with benefits vanished as we became less competitive.

International trade is an absolute necessity to a healthy U.
S. economy. Unfortunately, big-time money speaks louder and more forcefully
than common sense and fair economic practice. Democrats and Republicans joined
at the wallet with special interests, tragically left our national security
rusting away in hundreds of silent, inactive, and useless factories from coast
to coast.

History reminds us when one door closes because of trade,
others open when an economy is freewheeling and operating as intended in a free
enterprise, capitalistic system. However, we have a Marxist President who
believes business and business decisions must be filtered through an
all-powerful government. This stifling of the once powerful engine of industry,
leaves us even more vulnerable.

Jobs created in Obama’s collectivist economy are low wage,
service oriented positions gobbled up by illegal and legal aliens. Economic
growth is consistently slower than at any time in the last several decades, and
a crushing national debt threatens all future growth when interest rates return
to sustainable numbers.

If war visits our shores the glaring, unmistakable truth
will expose a nation suffering from neglect and decline, caused largely by political
chicanery and malfeasance at the highest levels of government.

Circumstances will uncover a corrupt and incompetent educational system, and an Ill-educated
populace indoctrinated into an ideology of dependence on the government. Unfortunately,
most of the country’s engineers come from other countries, and we rest in a state
of denial and lethargy, at the mercy of the world’s despots. Worse yet, our
political leaders have us tightly bound by contrived measures to our mortal
enemies China and Russia. Yes, they’ve placed our manufacturing, jobs, national
security, economy, and a massive national debt in the hands of foreign
dictators.

Once upon a time, this nation stood tall flexing a mighty industrial
complex, manufacturing base, and skilled labor force. Coincidentally, it all
remained largely unfettered by government. Undoubtedly, the next war will find
a nation rife with the greatest fast-food workers in the world.

Our industrial complex is as valuable as the Army, Navy,
Marines, ships, aircraft, missiles, and bombs. Our national Political leaders
destroyed our once awe-inspiring manufacturing and industrial complex and at
the same time Obama reduced our military. We remain at risk until these greedy,
shortsighted men get their hands out of big-money pockets and introduce policies
bringing back to our shores the manufacturing once so coveted by the world.

In 1921, we initiated the Washington Disarmament Conference
in which we cosigned with several countries, two treaties. The first was to
reduce the size of the US Navy fleet; along with the British, French, Japanese,
and Italian fleets. The other was a treaty to guarantee China’s integrity.
Japan was one of the signees!

In 1929, we naively signed a treaty that was supposed to abolish
war to resolve International disputes. Forty seven nations signed the treaty,
including Germany and Japan.

We scrapped more than 60% of our Navy, and the army was reduced to a total
force of 136,000 men. That was less than the army of Romania at that time! While the United States and most of the world
disarmed, the Axis powers audaciously prepared for war. If the world did not
learn a powerful, painful lesson from the causes of WWII, then we are doomed to
repeat another agonizing war.

Then, Neville Chamberlain, who said peace at any cost even
if it meant surrendering, helped throw Europe into full-out war. Today Barack
Obama says peace at any cost, even if it means surrendering or arming with
nuclear weapons a country sworn to our annihilation. While he makes the world
unsafe for all people, he drastically reduces our military, appeases our
enemies, and weakens the economy.We are
in similar circumstances as was the world and our nation in the 1930s.

The difference being, Roosevelt and Congress did not
disassemble our industrial might and send our manufacturing jobs to our
enemies. In fact, they fired up our manufacturing to assist Europe and Asia to
such a peak, that when we entered the war, much of our country’s economy was
quickly changed to support a full war effort for us and our allies.

While the federal government, media, Hollywood, and the
lunatic-left keep the country’s attention on fabricated crises and political
correctness, the country sinks under the weight of its own negligence and
inattention. America’s greatest tragedy 9-11, could have easily been prevented
by simply placing locks on cockpit doors, enforcing our Visa laws, and not
allowing foreigners access to flight training of commercial aircraft. Repeated
warnings of the dire consequences of these laxities went unheeded and disaster
ensued.

A weak nation is a vulnerable nation, and we have never been
more vulnerable. Government is reactive and overactive but seldom proactive. Barack
Obama, his leftwing comrades, and Congress have us teetering on a precipice of
disaster. From where will the next Lincolnesque commander-in-chief or never-give-up,
Churchillian pitbull come? Let us hope we don’t have another war to find out!